The European Central Bank (ECB) is conducting a comprehensive review of its publications on banking supervision to improve transparency, consistency and ease of use for banks and other stakeholders, including the wider public. This work is being carried out in the context of a broad reform to make European banking supervision more efficient, effective and risk based. The review supports these objectives by streamlining guidance, clarifying the purpose of different supervisory tools and ensuring clear, consistent and accessible communication.
The review is based on a comprehensive inventory of key publications available on the ECB’s banking supervision website expressing supervisory expectations and setting good practices. Such publications are an essential tool for European banking supervision. They explain how the ECB carries out its supervisory tasks and communicate supervisory expectations and good practices in a non binding manner. They do not create new legal obligations and do not replace binding requirements laid down in EU or national law.
The review encompasses approximately 130 guides, reports, letters and methodologies. It has identified around 40 documents as outdated, superseded or no longer relevant, which have been discontinued. The texts will remain accessible for transparency and archival purposes, but will be clearly labelled as discontinued. A list of these publications is provided below.
